Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-11-18
A SENSATION
Opinion Of a Fashionable Woman OF the
World.

Opinion OF a Fashionable Woman OF the
World.
"DO you expect to win in your dress
reform movement" was asked Of Mrs.
Annie Jenness- Miller, IS E. I4th St.,
New York, editor OF Dress.
81 hope tOr'
'.Why do you object to the present
styleP'
1T is ungraoeful, defOrming and in
iurioDs."
DO ladies generally support the re-
formY'
ayes, very generally. My CORES
pondence Is very heavy. Next to Mis-.
UleVeIand's mine is said to be the larg-
est daily mail Of any WOman's In the
United States, and from not only every
State in the Union but from almost every
country OF Europe"
SIS the magazine, Dress, succeeding T"
avery handsomely, iadeed. Dress has
been published less than a year, and
am gratided with reports from all over
the world Of the acceptance by ladies IN
the very highest rank, OF the reform
which Dress advocates"
Mrs. Miller is a very comely woman
in appearance, and is very enthusiastic
in her dress reform agitation. AS the
New York Graphic says; ''She herself
is young aud attractive, with a figure so
harmOniOusly developed as to suggest
strength, power and beauty"
The reform which she is urging with
so much eloquence and grace seems to
be the coming one. Mrs. Jenness-Alil-
Ter has the advantage Of high social pO-
sIUiOn, being Of the same family with the
late Oliver Wendell Phillips, and the
| poet. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
sit Is in the fashionable world, Of
| course, where all the styles are deter
mined, and where the change mast
/ Begin" she says.
CHOW do you endure SO much work
and keep so wenF"
az dress myself according to my own
ideas, and furthermore, I give myself
/ the best OF care and treatment. Six
J years ago was nearly exhausted from
! my work Of leCturing, writing, etc"
Indeed, you do not lock like itnOw."
''NO, I am not now. I am perfectly
we'll woman and intend to remain so.
You see, understand the laws Of life
/ too well to be, or remain i'll, but strange
/ as 1t may seem for one TO say who is op-
] tgD-El X A44f7-4I444G1 U- EoLAGLu4 es4A44I4-
! pies, if I find myself tired or feeling ILL.,
fly to the one single remedy which I
do endorse, and that is Warmers safe
cure which gives new energy and vital
/ ity to all my powers. 1t is indeed what
/ I sometimes call my standby I have
many opportunities to recommend it, and
embrace them gladly, because I know
that it is thoroughly reliable, and for
women especially effective. Indeed, I
often find myself recommending it to my
friends as warmly az do my magazine,
or indeed my improved garments, and
this 1 would not do did not personally
know OF its virtues"
Mrs. Miller insists that all women can
and must be beautiful, and viii be so If
thsy follow her style Of dress and self
F.. treatment.
evil you not state, briefly, in Just
/ what your reform cUnsistsf %
sob, with pleasureI I propose q ier-
sey fitting garment to be worn next TO
the body, making Of woman a vision Of
lovelinessP
II Over this put g cotton or linen
/ garment, OF one piece, without bands or
binding, covering the entire body also.
III "In place Of the petticoats,
propose one complete body covering
garment called 'leglettes.'
". ave abandon the corset entirely
as totally unfit Tor use, In its common
form. and We substitute therefor a sup
pie supporting waist, and then We make
| the outside gown as beautiful as artistic
Ekill and common sense can design
Mrs hiiler's words OF counsel, which
] avarv uyounan shoufd heed will uufou F,f-
edly give to the women Of America SONS
new ideas upon a subject so very neal
to each OF them.